{"id":89995,"date":"2018-04-17T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89995"},"modified":"2018-04-17T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T14:40:11","slug":"canastota-fbla-excels-at-state-leadership-conference-in-binghamton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89995","title":{"rendered":"Canastota FBLA excels at State Leadership Conference in Binghamton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89996\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?resize=900%2C672&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?resize=400%2C299&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left are Matthew McDermott, Lucas Barnello, AJ Rivera, Gabbie Edwards, April Dabrowski, Carly Cashel, Emily Case and Hannah Farwell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Canastota FBLA excels at State Leadership Conference in Binghamton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From April 11 through April 13, more than 700 members of the Future Business Leaders of America gathered in Binghamton for the annual State Leadership Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Canastota\u2019s High School chapter of FBLA sent eight members to the conference. Chapter advisors Elizabeth Garofalo and Robert Esposito accompanied the members.<\/p>\n<p>Students participated in general sessions, workshops, competitive events and served as voting delegates throughout the three-day event.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, the Canastota Chapter was recognized as one of the top five outstanding chapters in the state \u2013 receiving fifth-place recognition for its efforts during the year. The Canastota chapter <!--more-->nominated James Caldwell of Caldwell Insurance Agency for the Business Person of the Year Award. Caldwell was selected to receive this prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p><em>Other awards the chapter received include:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community Service Project \u2013 fifth Place (Lucas Barnello, Emily Case and Carly Cashel)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure (Emily Case \u2013 fifth place)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Word Processing (Gabbie Edwards \u2013 fifth place)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure (Carly Cashel \u2013 sixth place)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to FBLA (Carly Cashel \u2013 seventh place)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Business Procedures (Hannah Farwell \u2013 ninth place)<\/li>\n<li>Insurance and Risk Management (April Dabrowski &#8211; 10th place)<\/li>\n<li>Local Chapter Annual Business Report \u2013 second Place<\/li>\n<li>Humanitarian Award \u2013 Emily Case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Program of Work Recognition<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community Outreach and Engagement Programs: Yes We Can!, Community Connections and Building a Bridge for Others<\/li>\n<li>Membership Services Programs: Early Bird Challenge, Smart Strategies and Promotional Production<\/li>\n<li>Executive Challenge Programs: Best Business Buddies and Media Madness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York State FBLA is composed of nearly 8000 members in 180 chapters. Canastota members are looking forward to representing New York State at the National Leadership Conference being held this June in Baltimore, Md.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraising activities are being planned to raise funds for this trip. We hope you will support the Canastota Chapter at its upcoming chicken barbeque being held at the school May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canastota FBLA excels at State Leadership Conference in Binghamton From April 11 through April 13, more than 700 members of the Future Business Leaders of America gathered in Binghamton for the annual State Leadership Conference. Canastota\u2019s High School chapter of FBLA sent eight members to the conference. Chapter advisors Elizabeth Garofalo and Robert Esposito accompanied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Group-after-awards.jpg?fit=2592%2C1936&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-npx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}